Dubai arabic english font
"Everything we do is based on this calligraphic skeletal structure. You have to look at the styles, the characteristics of each and how you can interpret them," explained Atrissi. "To design good typefaces, it is important to understand calligraphic tradition. Through the workshop Chahine and Atrissi taught approaches to Arabic typography. She has more than 18 fonts to her credit including the best-selling Frutiger Arabic and Koufiya. His work has been exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum in New York.Ĭhahine works at Linotype, Germany, a global provider of superior quality typographic products and services. An author and a lecturer, he is a frequent guest speaker at several universities and design seminars across the world. Now some of these students at the workshop may be able to expand the letters they have sketched into a system and further develop it into a font."Īttrisi has a design studio (in the Netherlands. Given that typeface is an integral ingredient, there is new interest in Arabic type. The co-host of the workshop, type designer Nadine Chahine, added: "Companies in the Gulf have more budgets for branding. Companies are trying to reaffirm the Arab identity on a corporate level," Atrissi told Gulf News. Companies are searching for unique typefaces.
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For unique branding - whether it is signage or a logo - you need a unique typographic voice. That something was clear from Atrissi's recent workshop titled Arabesque, Identity and Arabic Typography, organised by Nuqat Design Conference 2012, where students were sketching forms of Arabic lettering. This fact is singlehandedly encouraging type designers and graphic design students in the Middle East to do something about it. One that blatantly shouts out - there is high demand for Arabic fonts, less supply. It wasn't so much an observation as it was a declaration.
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Dubai: "There aren't enough Arabic typefaces," said typographer Tarek Atrissi.